This will give you nightmares tonight. Only view if you have a strong stomach.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Great Grand Daughter Nora, born on 8/19/09. 19 1/2 inches long and 7 lbs, 14 ozs. Mother, baby and Great Grandpappy doing fine.
Thanks to those who offered assistance when I reported that my son was out of work and looking.
He now has a job! He got it through a Temp. Agency. He went to a company in Taft with a weed cutting crew of five. He said his title was "Environmental Vegetation Eradicator Specialist".He cut weeds by hand for four days and they found out that he was a hard worker and was a Certified Crane Operator. He was assigned for one day with their crane operator as a test. He went back to finish his weed cutting job for three more days. The company then dismissed the weed cutting crew but told my son to come back the next day. They gave him a hefty raise and a crane operating job. He is happy with his work and feels great about finally getting back to work.
I just purchases a house for a rental. I went through Kern Federal Credit Union for my 70% loan. Kern Federal only makes home loans for owner occupied houses and directs their investment mortgages to Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo, with one week to go before closing denied the loan. There reason was that I had not made a house payment in the last year. Of course I haven't, I own my home and do not have a mortgage. I ended up having to paying cash to save the sale.
Wells Fargo received 25 Billion in bail out funds to ease up their loan policy. I have credit scores of 790, 805 and 815. The only thing I owe is $1,600 on my truck and $1.200 on a credit card (I had to buy an Apple Laptop on line because I could not get what I wanted in Bakersfield). My question is, If I can't get a loan with no debt and perfect credit, who WILL they make a loan to?
The Mortgage Loan Manager at Kern Federal, Nance McKinley, was great through this whole process, as was my Realtor Deen Thompson, I only deal with people I can trust and these two are tops.
Something a little light. No politics.
From Human Events: Obama's payoff to the Unions.
How Will Card Check Force YOU To Fund The Agenda Of The Far-Left?
The Heritage Foundation explains how the system presently works and how “Card Check” will tip the balance.
"For more than 60 years, American workers have decided whether to form a union with a private vote... neither management nor union organizers know how each individual worker voted. The secret ballot lets workers vote their conscience without risking job loss or physical assault for making the 'wrong' choice... . The EFCA would make it easier for union officials to pressure workers. Under the card-check process, union organizers would publicly solicit signatures on union authorization cards... Without secret ballots, union organizers know exactly who has signed union cards and who has not. In the past, union organizers have repeatedly approached and pressured-and, in some cases, threatened-reluctant workers. They have also used pro-union co-workers to solicit signatures, putting peer pressure on 'holdouts' to change their minds."
So what's the big deal?
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich explains just why such a change is a radical threat to your bottom line:
"Under Card Check, union organizers and their enforcers will be able to go into any small business, hospital or construction site and coerce workers into signing cards. If they get 50 percent plus one, the deal's done, and the workers are forced into a union. And if management and the new union fail to reach a negotiated contract, the federal government will just impose one. Coerced unionization allows for what is effectively a new, unaccountable form of forced taxation. Workers will have a portion of their paycheck going to the union to be spent as the bosses see fit, including political donations to parties and candidates that the workers may not even support." [Emphasis Mine]
Let's put that in more personal terms.
Let's say that union organizers come into YOUR workplace and through coercion or peer-pressure - or even physical intimidation - "convince" a simple majority of your co-workers to form a union.
At that point you only have two choices. You either join the union or face job termination. You can't opt-out!
And once you "join" the union, you are FORCED to pay union dues. Again, you cannot opt-out. You have no choice in the matter, and the union dues will come directly out of each and every paycheck you receive!
Not only will you have no choice but to have those union dues taken out of your paycheck every week, you will have little or no say in how those dues are spent!
How your hard-earned money gets spent will be up to the whims of union bosses. And make no mistake, your hard-earned money – this new-found windfall that the union will ration from your paychecks – will go, in large part, to fund advocacy for the very left-wing causes that you find repugnant.
But that's not all. When the union tells you to strike... you strike... no unemployment benefits... just a meager strike fund that does not even come close to paying the bills...
… during such a strike, you can’t go to work until a union boss tells you it is okay – NO IFS, ANDS OR BUTS!
Perhaps that's why, according to polls cited by Gingrich, "77 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of Democrats and 79 percent of independents" oppose doing away with the secret balloting provisions that “Card Check” would ERADICATE!
But it gets worse. If the union bosses and the company management can't reach an agreement about your job, then bureaucrats in the Obama Administration would then FORCE an agreement on both parties.
In other words, government bureaucrats would be empowered to determine all aspects of your job – even down to the compensation you make, regardless of any agreement you and your employer come to.
Heritage again:
"Section 3 of EFCA gives government officials the power to impose contracts on workers and firms. Government bureaucrats would set compensation and make most major business decisions at newly unionized companies. The bureaucrats writing these proposals would have no expertise in the company's operations or business model and would be unaccountable if their decisions drove the company into bankruptcy. Workers would lose all say over working conditions. EFCA would effectively create government-run workplaces."
To put it another way - and let's speak plainly here - if your boss doesn't knuckle-under to union demands, then some Obama appointee will simply step in and FORCE the union demands onto your employer!
That's essentially FASCISM!
My son Jeffrey has been out of work for 4 months even though he has filled out dozens of applications and is on file with every Temp service in town. He quit his last job because he was on call and had only had three days work in two weeks. He quit to go to class and qualify for his Hydro Crane Certification. When he started the class there were a number of jobs available for crane operators but by the time he received his certification oilfield construction had dried up and there were no jobs, He has been turned down for a couple of jobs for being over qualified. They reasoned that he would quit as soon as oilfield construction opened up again. He will take ANY job, work ANY hours and ANY days. Any advice would be appreciated.
Here is a list of the certificates he holds at present:
NCCCO Crane Operator, Fork Lift cert., Passport card(Contractor Safety), Confined Space Cert., Class B M1 Endors; P Cal. Drivers license (he is studeing for his Commercial A license), California special Drivers Certificate, W/ Medical Exam Cert., Military Discharge (DD214)
He posesses the following skills:
Hydro Crane Operator, bobcat operator, Dump truck and water truck driver, Front loader operator, Welder's helper and proficient wire welder, Vehicle Service (including heavy Equipment), Vehicle repairs except major Engine and Transmission overhaul, Passenger bus driver, Custodian expierence, Grounds keeper expierence including tractor mowers, Yard sprinkler design, installation and repair, Small engine repair (lawnmowers and motorcycles).
He is a hard worker, sober, and does not use drugs. Has a very high mechanical ability.
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A Montana cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture
when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses
and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you
exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a
calf?"
The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it
to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the
Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an
exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that
scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens
the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing
facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his
Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then
accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with
email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,
miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says,
"You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the
cowboy.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks amused as the
young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what
your business is, will you give my back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says the cowboy.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though
nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a
question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you
are; and you don't know a thing about cows...this is a herd of sheep."
"Now give me back my dog."
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I'm an agnostic but I really like this.
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